Federal News Radio has put together a list of informative and helpful green government resources for both agencies and contractors. We have organized them based on popular greening topics and initiatives.

ENERGY

• Pew Charitable Trusts — This analysis of government spending data finds the federal role in the energy sector is significant, although smaller in comparison to its role in other sectors, such as transportation.
• GAO Report on DoD Use of Alternative Energy (April 2010)
• 2009 Report on DoD Energy Usage

TRANSPORTATION

• GSA Website for Alternative Fuel Vehicles
• Energy Department Guidance for New Alternative Fuel Vehicle Definitions

PEOPLE

• List of Federal Sustainability Officers
• Greengov Symposium Website (GWU site) or Greengov Symposium Website (White House site) — The Greengov Symposium is being held Oct. 5-7, 2010
• Office of the Federal Environmental Executive
• White House Council on Environmental Quality
• Energy Department Federal Energy Management Program

TECHNOLOGY

• Report by Verdiem on PC Power Management
• EPA Energy Star
• GSA carbon footprint tool — More on the GSA’s Carbon Footprint tool can be found here

BUILDINGS

• GSA’s Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings
• DoD’s Building Sustainability Efforts

SUPPLY CHAIN/CONTRACTORS

• GSA Schedule 899 – Environmental Services
• GSA Web Page for Greening the Supply Chain

OTHER GOVERNMENT RESOURCES

• DoD Special Report on Going Green
• FedCenter.gov — The federal government’s home for comprehensive environmental stewardship and compliance assistance information. Below are some specific pages on this site that agencies and contractors might find particularly helpful.
  • Sustainability Web Page
  • High Performance Buildings Web Page
  • Greenhouse Gas Web Page
  • Transportation Web Page
  • Energy Web Page
  • Acquisition Web Page
  • Electronics Stewardship Web Page

FEDERAL NEWS RADIO RESOURCES

• Beneath the Green Dome (series)
• Smart Grid, Smart Future (series)
• GSA and Metropolis magazine challenge: Remodel federal buildings (October 2010)
• NNSA breaks ground in many ways (September 2010)
• Agency sustainability efforts moving slowly (September 2010)
• Agencies have plans, now will go green (September 2010)
• Energy contracts help agencies reach green goals (August 2010)
• Energy hopes green roofs spread like weeds (July 2010)
• How to make your agency energy plan really work (July 2010)
• DoD tells Congress greening doesn’t affect goals (April 2010)
• GSA reorganizes to better green the government (April 2010)

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